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E. D. LABOR PROGRAM : BEADING members of the committee for economic de- * velopment have worked out a statement on national “labor policy which, we think, merits earnest attention from ~ President Truman and congress. : Its theme is-that free collective bargaining, made more _ effective, can help this country to achieve industrial peace | "and prosperity. It- advocates ways and means, including’ legislation, of promoting better bargaining. ! 2» . =» A UTHORS of this statement—Eric Johnston, Indiana's ‘Paul G.’Hoffman, John D. Biggers, Chester C. Davis and others—are businessmen and employers. But theirs is no narrow viewpoint. Their efforts through the CED in behalf of high employment and steadily rising living standards have proved their genuine interest in labor's welfare, When they say that the American people cannot afford, and will not tolerate, continuance of such civil warfare between management and labor as cursed the country last year, they state a simple fact. They say frankly that there is no magic formula for peace in industry—that legislation, in and of itself, is not the answer—that bargaining can succeed only if labor and “management want it to succeed. But they assert that the ~ general public, through government, clearly has a right to - impose rules requiring both sides to give collective bargaining a fair chance to work. The CED group rejects the idea of compulsory arbitration of disputes over the making or changing of contracts, even in industries in which work stoppages would seriously affect public health, safety and welfare. It argues that government, instead of injecting itself into such disputes and laying down terms of settlement, should develop machinery to help parties settle their own differences.

Hoosier Forum _ To that end, it proposes that congress create a new,

independent federal mediation service, and make it illegal "Many Veterans Fool Bonus Is

for a union to take a strike vote or call a strike, or for an | . ea : . n employer. to institute a lockout, before giving this service Badly Needed Now: Should Pass 10 days of opportunity to mediate the issue in dispute. It . . By M. E. T, ETO Veteran, City : proposes also that strik e votes, when taken, shall be by Opinion among former service men and women on the question of secret ballot in supervised elections, and shall be preceded !a bonus is far from unanimous among those I know, and that includes by a public statement of the issues. many members of the American Legion and a smaller number of fel enn an» lows in the Disabled American Veterans and A. V. C. ; ; 3 I personally favor a tax exemption instead of a bonus, if we are HE CED plan would require compulsory arbitration of [to receive anything further. I am attending college at the expense of disputes over the meaning of contracts, once they are | the Soyo rument sud, 3 ougn 1 en Le army only 2 years gure . 2 ’ . my “bonus” educatio: is aroun ; idn't have a ore signed. It would withdraw Wagner act protection for the |; went into the army, and will have to find one when I get out of unionization of foremen; outlaw jurisdictional strikes; pro- |school. But I would have had that to do anyway. ibi: ik . bo t i 3 i i i We younger veterans naturally h bit By ee yo is and Dicketing by minority upoas would welcome the financial as- of a bonus seem to be in that group seeking Aorce employers stop dealing with majority sistance of a bonus. I'd take one which is settled in life. By that I unions certified under the Wagner act; strengthen measures (in a flash. But the drawback is mean they own their homes, have - against violent and unlawful picketing; subject unions to anti-trust prosecution if they restrain trade for the pur-

clerk, will be renominated. . . One political leader characterized the incumbent administration with the remark thas “I like my beer either hot or cold, not in between™ It has been an { in-between administration, with particular criticism ‘directed at the concentration of power in the mayor's hands, the police department gambler protection ness and inefficient ash and garbage collection, The next four years are too vital to Indianapolis to pick & mediocre man for head of the big business that is our ‘municipal government. There will be problems requiring foresight and vision . . . including decision on whether we are to continue to operate on a small town county seat basis or build a countywide metropolitan government in keeping with the requirements of the community, So far, none _of the candidates mentioned in either party . . . and these include many party hacks and some ambitious but unqualified men , . . has organization backing. The insurgent wing of the G. O. P. is expected to support City Controller Roy Hickman as the city hall candidate. ' Republican

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—When an American of the stature of Secretary of State George C. Marshall makes a statement it is a good idea for the rest of us to pay attention. Both in private before congressional committees and in public, Secretary ! Marshall has said this country must have universal military training if we are to assume the responsi3, bilities that go with our economic and technological power. ’ Gen. Marshall is not an imperialist. He is not a warmonger. Because he is a soldier, who has seen the devastation of war at first hand, he is all the more anxious to keep the peace in the world.

Tough Political Problem

UNIVERSAL TRAINING is one of the toughest political subjects. Although the latest Gallup poll showed that 72 per cent of all Americans favor it, a’ very active and persistent group is in opposition. This includes, in particular, certain church groups. . One of the most persistent arguments made by those who oppose universal military training is that such preparedness inevitably leads to war. This might be a good time to point out some evidence to the contrary. The country that has enjoyed the greatest span of peace in our troubled world is Sweden. Sweden has beer fn no war since 1812. "Since 1812, the Swedes have had universal military training. No one can say that Sweden is a military dictatorship. The Swedes haVe moved steadily toward greater democracy, both in their economic and their

By Mrs. L. W. Robbins, Indianapolis : . : 7 3 political life. Military service is accepted as a responMy husband had a chance for sibility of citzenship.

Seletmenie bu he us being |. rye reasons Sweden was able to keep out of r there” was more important| .. wor IT are many and complicated. In May

than anything else. Now that he’s e Bn aa paying | Of 1940, they escaped in large part because of th

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"1 do not agree with a word that you say, but Iwill defend to the death your right to say it.” — Yoltaire.

Most veterans are not Republicans or Democrats, we vote for the man. Believe me, we get the bonus or else. We are not asking for it— we are demanding it. How they get the money is not our worry as we do not want to tell them how to run the state of Indiana. Let your senators and representatives know you want this bonus passed. ?

HAVANA, Feb. 27.—The Cafe FPloridita, in the Hotel Florida, once was a clean but unpretentious place where a man could get the best daiquiri in the

world. Two sides of it are open to the streets and the

GOOD TRADE—FOR THEM ; USSIA has informed the United States that it views as |

“entirely fair” American plans to assume trusteeship jo Pri fronigatind - of the Japanese mandated. islands in the Pacific, taking into account the “decisive roles” our forces played in capturing the islands during the war. ; This attitude should occasion no surprise. The Rus-

sians are realists who recognize accomplished facts.

that we and our children would be good jobs, ete. The big companies imbless and some who will be paying for it. | were guaranteed a profit before they bedfast the rest of their days could I hope that the legislature will|got into the war. The G. I. didn't|USe 8nd need a bonus. Give these pose of stifling competition or creating monopolies. /not pass a bonus bill but will pro-|get a chance to demand concessions | CicranS & break. Give them what Th 1 . !vide for submit{ing the question for his post-war world. He just | BEY deserve. Give them a bonus! ese proposals are controversial. Many or all of ty the- voters with a statement of went without reservation. them will draw fire from union offigials. None of them how much it would cost the state) "i che a ora Is in doubt should be adopted without careful id i and how much money would DE By Navy Veteran's Wife, Shelbyville ’ y p t careful consideration. But we | i Wie bo ot {about whether we need it or not, believe they represent a sincere attempt to make collective the y a or hing al Boe put i up He the Jeople, not : ini i i : {By “Just a Vet.” Indians " alow Whe plenty all 1 heir 2 bargaining function better—and it must function better, ad Tra a 5h the | Start When my husband and Ijiyes 1 had a little bit when I| peddlers and bums used to peer in, but not very »» or the public will demand legislation beside which the CED ine feel we are deserving of a | .C married, we knew we were on went into the army but my wife and ' hopefully, because few tourists and not many women program will look mild. little appreciation. Few of those ov. ows, ay phi } Sxpect our rel-\two children couldn't live on $25 patronized the place. The three-piece orchestra teachers gave up their homes for A aig on pl ee week. Of couse they might have dozed, mostly, in the corner. - the front. We veterans will support Be We Worked 15 Vears for it existed, but I didn't feel like eat-| Pl Al J ked a large part of their raise by our years 101 li, ing all those fine “K” rations for ace ways Jampac taxes. [By C. L D. N. West st: a couple of years and them not| THE REASON the daiquiris are the best in the Well, the federal government has getting much so she had to spend, world is because Constante, the owner, more or less Of all the veterans T've talked to, 8iven us G. I's a decent break on| DAS little we had. It is no more| fathered their modern version. Even though he owns

: : . s {than right that we be compensated, the restaurant, he never allowed anybody else to mix I've yet to find one single solitary terminal pay and\free education ands some of our Own money we a daiquirl or a miraculous gin concoction called an veteran who wouldn't like to have Suaranteed loans for homes and | ont { 5 he still rules over the mixer land who couldn't use this bonus. Pusiness; so now some veterans ask| : Meal, Tone ges ‘becaus® both society and {When asked why they hadn't done ‘Or a state bonus. How about a gy c. & m. City | Xhien S002 UD 0 sen the Floridita. The place anything about it, there seems to COMNty, township and city bonus, Give us that bonus. I wonder or pi acked {be another reason why they were now is always p .

too? Wouldn't that be just as log- how it is to lay back in an easy : % . anted to speak EngIn the service and it definitely had ical. At least half the veterans I chair puffing on a 25 or S0-cent| BACK before the.war, if Jou wan pe 2

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Moreover, they are Oriental traders, who know a good deal when they see -one. Having recognized the validity of our claims, they will expect us to accept theirs. The Soviet Union added 250,000 | square miles to its domain during the war, and covets | additional parcels of land in various parts of the world. | We acquired a few sand dots in the Pacific. A deal which | nets a load of cord-wood for a toothpick naturally gets the Kremlin's nod of approval, A But that reference to “decisive roles” will live to haunt |

nothing to do with gaining any per- | know are against a state bonus. sonal wealth. Now that it is all over, they're just plain grateful for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Even politicians are willing to grant ex-G. 1.'s life and liberty without any argument. That doesn’t. cost anything. But when it comes to “pursuit of happiness,” they grab their purse strings like we were a bunch of pickpockets. We're asking for help now when we need it most.

By V. F. W. Officer, 218 N. Delaware st. Big business is out to kill every{thing pertaining to .any law that has “bonus” written in it. They ‘have forgotten that it was we who made it possible for them to make ‘millions, when we were in the swamps, jungles, mudholes and | foxholes, “Condition Red” most of {the time. We deserve a bonus and a good one, now. If we don't get

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iought to be really ashamed but haven't the ‘nerve to admit it or (have you? That's what us veterans {want to know, and not 20 years

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“SEGREGATION ON COLOR (IS DOUBLE-EDGED EVIL”

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lish in the cafe you had to talk to Ernest Hemingway, who would be sitting like a tired professor in ore corner, with a daiquiri and a newspaper. Everybody else spoke Spanish only. The daiquiris are still good but the atmosphere is so hightoned now that a man feels naked without coat and necktie. Not only is the joint full of females, both Cuban and American, but no crowd at the Spork or Colony could match it, weight for age, in regard to mink, jewels, plumes, sable and those hats which look like the lady’s head has just exploded. Constante's plight, in the daiquiri department, is

| Flagrantly evident is the need similar to -the situation which ‘might arise if Mr.

| Gimbel and Mr. Macy suddenly decided to wait on all their customers themselves. Constante struggles manfully to slake the thirst of everyone, but he is

that state bonus, then at the next |. . : A 3 {By John C. Coale, Anderson {election there will be new faces | oF a positive program to encour: on deck. The Soviets feel that their role in those areas | The present is the best time for in the state house. We are getting | 6° uhdersianding. 4. simple and

v4 . . Sy . la bonus, when the veteran is striv-|d | natural way to educate for brotherWa as Sccisive as ours in the Pacific, and they are strict ing to gain a toe-hold. Fb I Lt) being few bigwigs, | 100% That such’ a way can be adherents to the doctrine that to the victor belongs the | ——— _ | provided here if the Indfana legislature enacts into law house bill

gpoils. They saw nothing unreasonable in their seizure ¢: . law of Manchurian property, officially valued at $2 billion, as Side Glances —By Galbraith 10 was suggested in the edionial, bo . s . : ; ’ | “Segregation in Schools,” (Times, part of their price for their six-day war in the Far East. | Friday, Feb. 14). They will expect us to regard as “entirely fair” their claims | It puts pride into the heart, and to any territory which they “liberated” and now wish to iro: to have The Indian-| wpgp OBJECT of the Alpha is to show, that the bring within the Soviet orbit. Apa bill to abolish oy | Jewish Pentateuch was not written by, Moses, Hie We led with our chin when we prematurely pushed the | our schools. | Hebrew. legislator; that it never existed in its present ir \ form until nearly one thousand years after Moses; trusteeship proposal to the front. It could well have waited | Sometimes one forgets that seg-| that it is not a work of divine authority, nor does * until the draft of the Japanese treaty was ready, by which | regation based only on color is athe truth of the Christian religion depend on the “time other territorial i Tr ab co | double-edged evil, a discredit to| truth or falsehood of the Pentateuch.” game Other eryitorial issues would have been settled—if | those who allow it as well as 0| ‘1p c0 6) words reflect the essence and the spirit ~ they are susceptible of settlement. Now the Russians can hy : ‘be expected to make the best of their new bargaining point.

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those Who bear it. of the battle of the creeds in the religious life of Innn. * | diana in the 1840's. They were written by Rev. “PROHIBITION FAILED, WHY | jonathan Kidwell, and were published in the Alpha NOT LEGALIZE GAMBLING?” | in 1343 By Robert C. Arthur, Crawfordsville The Rev. Mr. Kidwell was the leader of one of I would like to give my opinion | the two factions of Universalists in the state. He on this légalization of gambling | was one of the earlier pioneer preachers of Indiana. business. I am not going to jump | He was scantily educated, and was twitted in by the on Mr. Broviak. I fully agrée with | more recent comers who were his opponents, led by him, We tried prohibition and| Rev. Erasmus Manford. found that it wouldn't work. Like- ; . ’ i ‘ wise the gambling man is going to He Was a Thinker

find a way to rid himself of his| pur THE Rev. Mr. Kidwell was of solid worth, money whether it's legal or not. 80| yo wags a thinker, a good preacher, a writer of abilwhy not make it legal? ity. With J. Adams, he founded Rhilomath, Ind., a Personally I would much rather | vi;),00 in the northwest corner of Union county. see our police forces spend more pore phe edited the Philomath Encyclopedia and time in patroling our streets &nd | gjrcle of Sciences; opened a Universalist school; and highways and less in raiding bingo published the Alpha. parties, poker] clubs, etc. The Rev. Mr, Kidwell, a native of Kentucky, had - v long been in Indiana, and was widely known in the DAILY THOUGHT state, On ‘a business trip to Indianapolis, in the And the Lord, He it is that Simer of 11820, he frequently preached in the state doth go before thee; He will be | TOUSe. . : : with thee, He will not fall thee, | ON Jan. 21, 1830, he set the town on edge in neither forsake thee: fear not, Joint religious debate with Rev. Edwin Ray, a young neither be dismayed. —Deuteron- | Methodist minister., The debate was held in the - ~ | omy 31.8. i :

HE'S LUCKY TO BE ALIVE J UCKY LUCIANO had the bad luck to be spotted in | Havana by Scripps-Howard Columnist Bob Ruark. J ‘Result: Lucky's name again was emblazoned in the public | prints, the United States government. prohibited shipment | ‘narcotics to Cuba, the Cuban government arrested him | r deportation: to Italy, and police officials in Rome an- | nounced that they would clap him back into the clink as | ‘a8 he reached his native shore. Someone else will have to cry about Lucky's hard luck. | don’t weep easily in a case like this. Our thoughts | ng this peddler of women and dope can be expressed | cgined by “Alfalfa Bill” Murray, who said of a ¢ “When he’s out of jail he's away from |

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standingly strong ‘candidate and } ing the field, So are the Demacratic leaders. .The city council membership is especially imporand frequently ignored by the voters. The couficll has nine members, of whom three are and will ‘be of the minority party. One candidate will .be nominated next May from each of the six coun cllmhnic districts. In November, the voters of the city as a whole . . . as compared with the voters of each district In the primary , , . ballot on the 13 candidates, The nine highest are elected. In the primary, every voter should make it his business to be informed on the candidates. It will be especially easy since there will be only thres he Will be called upon to select , , , nominees for mayor, city clerk and councilman from the district in which he lives. The effort involved is assuredly justified by he responsibility the citizens entrust to these of-

Present members. of the council are John A. Schumacher, Lucian B. Meriwether, Edward R. Kealing, Herman E. Bowers, A. Ross Manly and Raymond OC. Dauss, Republicans, and William A. Brown, Max White and ‘Otto H. Worley, Democrats.

Make-Up of Next Council

- MEMBERSHIP OF THE NEW city council most certainly should include a woman, because of the large number of women voters and the frequently astute interest they: display in the affairs of government; a Negro, as it does now, to represent this segment of the population; a representative of labor and six other members with no particular obligation to any group. J . The future of Indianapolis . .. now at a critieal stage in its development . .’. could well hinge about the forthcoming city election.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs U. S—Heed Military Training Plea |

firm stand taken by Russia, then nominally at peace with the Naasis, There was, however, a later Invasion threat, That was in February of 1942, The. Swedes got advance word of it in Berlin. They mobilized 400,000 trained men for active duty. When Hitler learned this, he is sald to have burst into a Ait of rage. With his generals he had planned to ruse a limited number of divisions for a quick conquest. Full Swedish mobilization meant that the invasion would be more costly in terms of divisions and perhaps also in time, : In the end, the decision was against Invading Sweden. ‘You can make out a good case that little Sweden would have been overwhelmed had it not been for the fact that those trained men were mobilized to defend their country. From September of 1939 on, the Swedes never had less than 100,000° men under arms, For long stretches the total was. close to 400,000. . is

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member of the coalition government for his opinion on universal training for America after the war. His answer seems to me worth setting down here: “Of course, you will have to come to it. Otherwise you will never be able to meet your obligations in the world. You can never again rely on a period in which to prepare yourselves after war has begun.” Training and preparedness do not inevitably mean a militaristic state and the end of democracy. Progress can go along with training which equips young men for defense of the nation. We must not let the old stereotypes prevent us from honestly considering the recommendation which Secretary Marshall has made with so much urgency.

fighting a losing battle. The professional daiquiri hounds go unquenched while tourists are served. Constante has a doorman, now, too, and I suppose by next winter he will have invested in a velvet rope, a select guest list, and an approximation of the cub room for the favored few. Something even more horrible has happened to El Templete, which used to be a dingy little openfaced joint on the water front. The food was won. derful, if you didn't mind having a stewbum walking between you and the soup, and it was cheap. El Templete today has gone high-hat, and is the site-of luncheon for many a twittering dowager who wouldn't have been caught dead in the neighborhood before the war. It has been remodeled and enlarged and the prices have kept pace with, its respectability in the rate of rise. All Havana seems to have followed that pattern, There are so many gaudy neon lights now that the city resembles Times Square. Everybody speaks English, or so it seems. The sidewalk salesmen no longer are leechlike in their effort to load you with interest‘ing postcards and even more interesting addresses, ‘Even the price of taxifare is nearly standard, now, and the drivers, who used to careen around as if fleeing from demons, have become alarmingly sedate.

Off-Limits to Ladies ABOUT THE only establishment in the city which has not changed much is Marina's, Havana's most proper brothel. Marina's afternoon cocktail trade has swelled enormously for, as the town's gentry points out, it is the last citadel which is off-limits to ladies and largely unavailable to visitors. But, say the caballeros, with a resigned shrug, #- may not be long before Marina's decorous bar and quiet patio will be thronged with tourists clutching guidebooks and fistfulls of cheap maracas.” Right now it's the only quiet place a man can buy a drink,

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Norio

Battle of Creeds Back in 1840's |

The Rev. Jonathan Kidwell was a typical instance of the religion of the 25-year period in Indiana culminating in the decade of the 1840's. In this period, the emphasis in religion changed from evangelism to creeds. The fervid shouts of camp meeting conver~ sions passed to excited debates among the Baptists, for example, as to whether their creed should emphasize missionary work, foot-washing, or other tenets. . At one time.in this era, there were six kinds of Presbyterians in Bloomington, Ind, Finally, the bate tle of creeds had liquidated three 6f them. At this point, David Star Jordan facetiously observed - that there were three kinds of Presbyterians in town—the “Reformed,” the “United,” ‘and those that were neither united nor reformed. But to the people in Indiana who lived the two generations down to the Civil war, a church creed was a thing serious and sacred. Once they decided on it; they battled for it. They were sacredly devoted to it. It was the guiding force of thelr lives.

2032 Indiana Churches

AT THE CLOSE of the 1840's, there were 2033 churches in Indiana in a total population of 685,868, There were 17 religious denominations, and 13 mire sects. ‘By 1860, as the Civil war cameyp the era of church schism practically ended. 4 : " Nearly 100 years later, the United States census of 1936 reflects the aftérmath of the period. In that re were 91 church denominations in Indiana —nine ‘kinds of Methodists, seven kinds of Mennonites, seven kinds of Baptists, five kinds of Eastern

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ample. Total membership was. 1,350,288, Viewed in retrospect, the significant thing about this battle of the creeds in Indiana in the. second

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