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point in his statements to the senate labor committee. The United Mine Workers, he said, could settle their bh the mine owners “if the government would a ‘blackjack to beat the miners into submission
, except in. what is known as the “central cometitive field.” Tn 10 years it had lost about 335,000 mem-
a In 1983, Section 7 of the national industrial recovery act came to John L..Lewis like a life saver to a drowning. man. That was the famous sectjon guaranteeing workers tights of self organization. The‘Wagner act, ‘with. its open ‘encouragement and one-sided protection of unionism, com- : Bled the job. » Mr: Lewis didn’t do it. Uncle Sam did it for him. .
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they have engaged in eight major strikes and literally thousands of minor ones. Even in wartime, when the nation's life was at stake, Mr. Lewis led strikes and black- - jacked the government into helping him enforce his de- | mands. Last year, when the country was struggling to get back into peacetime production, there were two long Lewis coal strikes. The first stopped mining for. 59 days, and ended only when the government gave the union the most favorable contract it ever had. The second began when Mr. Lewis undertook, by one-sided action which the United States supreme court has now denounced, to set aside that ~ contract. It lasted for 16 days and, in the dead of winter, threatened to paralyze the country’s industries and freeze. its people. _... Only under that extreme provocation did the government, at last, seek legal protection against this union autoHats headstrong abuse of his: government-made power. - Yet John L. Lewis has the effrontery to assert that the government should not intervene even if the fights of other groups—that is, the rights of the American people— are infringed by the conduct of a union. ‘Uncle Sam, like King Lear, is learning. “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child.”
HEMISPHERE SOLIDARITY
IT is good news that President Aleman of Mexico, return- * ing President Truman's call, will visit Washington next month. The American people will welcome the opportunity to greet the distinguished visitor in the same cordial spirit shown to our President in Mexico City. i! Mr. Truman's good will mission was a happy thought. Its success, coinciding with the ovation to Ambassador Messersmith on his return to Buenos Aires, raises hope for general improvement in relations with our Latin American neighbors. !" Unity among the American republics, north and south, is more essential today than ever before. : . . Europe is in.distress, Asia a ferment of unrest and revolution. Sound and solvent, the nations of the Western hemisphere. are the hope of the free world. But, to be equal to their new responsibilities, they must live and work together in sympathetic understanding and present a solid front against the agencies of dissension which block recov- , ery in other parts of the globe. 'T We achieved hemisphere solidarity during the war, then by neglect permitted it to fall apart afterwards. Worse than that, we revived the ghost of intervention by interfering in internal politics in Argentina, by attempting to influence the outcome of a presidential election. The dam- - age done by that mistake has been repaired to some degree. But such blunders must not be repeated if the Western hemx isphere | is to be a friendly and £0-operative neighborhood.
ke} KTOMIC STALEMATE EE ia R. GROMYKO, the Soviet delegate, insists that the manufacture of atom bombs be outlawed by treaty, and our stockpile of bombs destroyed, before adoption of a plan for international control of atomic energy production. - On the control plan itself, he rejects the American proposal for international management of atomic production plants. He also opposes giving the control agency power inspect atomic equipment and operations, and demands petention of the big-power. veto over any action of the agency. ii "This is, in effect, a reiteration of Mr. Gromyko's “state. ment last sunimer, declaring the Baruch control plan unacceptable either in whole or in part. If it is Russia's last {word on the subject there is no prospect of international" ~ Areement on atomic energy controls in the foreseeable
i Wemust eomtinice to manufacture bombs as long as the ty exists that other nations are making them. We
International inspection of atomic processing is estabd and freely exercised. The United States offered to share our secrets and -how with the rest of the world, asking only for reasafeguards against misuse of this terrible power n aggressor nation. Our offer has been rejected, as and inacceptable.” powder dry, while hoping for the best. Freee
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I. LEWIS stretched truth beyond the breaking |
gives the government rebuilt the “United Mine Workers |
seven or eight persons whose
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agree with a word that you will defend to the death t to say it." — Voltaire.
For Mayor, Not for
mayor next May 6, when. It looks like a number
But, the danger of voting for a
port is often enough to elect him, along with miscellaneous votes from | lazy citizens, those who don't vote and those who do unthinkingly. So, let's cast a sharp eye on the
names already have been mentioned as probable names on the ballot. Later, we can’ pick to pieces others who aspire to the office. In that way, we will have conscientiously discharged our responsibilities as citizens. Let us not be disturbed by the thought that ever so often our well-meant selection bears fruit. » t = “RECORDS OF PAST DECRY MILITARY MACHINES” 'By HM. W. Dasecke, 2146% N. Illinois st. Historical records of military training of the past do not prove the correctness of the plea of even such a great soldier as the present Secretary of State George C. Marshall. The most powerful military machines of recent history, built by peacetime military = conscription, Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan, to mention only the most important of many, wentdown to ignominious defeat at the hands of nations that had no peacetime conscription, were unprepared for war, and therefore had no military machine of any great impoctance. Sweden’s geographical location, her supplies of vital ores so essential to the German military machine, and not the 400,000 trained soldiers, were the real reasons that Sweden was able to keep out of
graphical location been such as Poland, the Balkan states, etc, would 400,000 trained troops have stopped the German horde from
world war II. Had Sweden's geo-|
"Vote for Individual Candidate
His Backers"
By One Who Values His Vote, City Now's the time to begin thinking about the probable candidates for sense. And to solve this so-called primary election will be held. f choices will be available for the average voter, with the likelihood that candidates representing anti-city hall, pro-city hall, businessmen and other groups will vie for favor.
party or group instead of an indi-|
vidual candidate is the same danger inherent in allowing someone else to do one’s thinking. It's’ easy and many times ¢/erything worksout o.k.| Sometimes, however, groups without regard to the welfare of the majority of voters, decide on a candidate. Their indorsement and
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By DANIEL M. KIDNEY G. O. P. Chairman Carroll Reece says he "prefers congressional rubber stamps now that they are Republican. = ®
2 Stalin turneg in his uniform. Probably felt he wasn't up to talking shop with Gen. Marshall. = = = Marshall should tell Stalin that training U. S. troops in the Arctic doesn’t mean we would gm with
snowballs, E J : J »
Looks like President Truman may
{haye picked up some hot tips in
Mexico for next year’s bull fight. » = » Bigger checks for congressmen so far haven't produced any- better balance.
“RENT INCREASES WOULD “RESULT IN BETTER HOMES” By R. C. Caldwell, 7005 Westfield rd. Mr. Tenant—you decide. Rent control on high real estate prices is a question you must answer.
In order to get a roof over your head, you pay a high premium for real estate that now needs repair. By a nominal rent increase you have a place to live and have not | signed your life away on mortgage | papers. Plumbers, electricians, painters and all trades pertaining to maintenance have raised their prices. This,
crushing through the direct route to Russia?
Harken back to the|
together with high'taxes, depreciation; major improvements; make
days of our wild and woolly West, | rental ‘property = unprofitable in when it was considered necessary to|many instances. With 90 per cent be a two-gun man to survive. War of the landlords fair, why. penalize between individuals was rampant,|them for 10 per cent of “shystérs.” killings frequent. Abolition of gun-|Quit buying and you can start rent-1 toting brought comparative peace; ing. - Every house sold only puts
cannot know what other nations are doing until the right |
So’ we have no choice but to ;
they. are about to ps ruled Egypt |
as the , individual, so ne state, the
- How in “the name of common sense can we acquire peace by. continuous preparations for war?
PBYSON, BA TRUE hse Mi tae |
you in and others out.
ra little higher rent. | Every house is for sale,-you may
| be next in line for a place to-live.
Side Glances —By Galbraith
Do you want a. mortgaged. iis or
“THERE IS NO RACE PROBLEM” By McKinley Brewer, 325 W. New York st. There is no race problem. That
{is if everyone would just use a little
| problem it's going to take a lot of {educating of people of both races. "| First children should attend the {same church and Sunday school. |The church of all places is the place to start. ‘Then schools. Teachers should teach the children {right and when that child grows up it will know right. They should participate in sports together, attend amusement places together. {I question a man's Christian religion. when he can hate another man and then go to church and face his pastor—but this is another
church, Sunday school,
{freely with one another they become acquainted with each other. They learn that each has. the same feelings, the same emotions as the other. Regardless of one’s nationality, all suffer the same pain, thirst, hunger and many other things that are common to hundreds. *I have heard the expression made by a child's parents ‘when the child misbehaved: “If you don’t behave I'll make that black man get you.” Now that is wrong for that child forever has a tendency to fear and hate black persons. White people have no pre-emience above a black person. For what befalls one befalls the other. Yes, one die so die the other. All have one breath, all are of the flesh. All are of the dust and all return to dust. So you see color is only skin deep. It has been proven beyond a doubt that there is no superior race. Yes, if homes won't do it, schools and churches are the places to educate the coming generations that all men are born equal. Our constitution guarantees every man his freedom and a right to the pursuit, of happiness, but does the colored man get it? We of this country holler about a free election in Poland and other countries, and yet in some states they make laws and with threats keep true Ameri-
don't we, a great nation of many nationalities, wake up? Of course all good thinking people know that ignorance is the cause of so much strife and prejudice,. The press is also.’ responsible for letting the public know the truth. Now in the time~of war if we can fight
hen why can — of ki live together yw work Wethiet ” 5 # “WHY FURNISH CAR FOR OFFICEHOLDERS?" By Ex-G. L, Indiankpolis I sure have to give a hand to the| three councilmen who voted against giving the prosecutor's office $2100 for a new car. I am a poor taxpayer and I can't afford that kind of money for a car and never could.
I thik it is about time these people who are elected to office found out that they can't throw away the money at people who have to do without to pay taxes and try to have a place to live. Why the taxpayers have to furnish any cars to the elected officeholders is over my head. If they had a position in private industry they would not be furnished a car to use, and why is it they have. guts enough to ask the taxpayers to furnish them one takes a lot of gall. Yours for less throwing away of the poor taxpayers’ money at this time or any other,
DAILY THOUGHT
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto tredsure hid in a field; the which.when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. —Matthew 13: 4.
TAKE all the pleasures of "all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years, 2 One minute of Heaven is . worth them all. :
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JOUR TOWN . osha By Anton Somer. i SG % | Prof. Coins Local Financial School }
THE LAST THING 1 heard before retiring Jast part night was a radio blast to the effect that any time
with no money to buy’any, And, for all I know, it may have been the reason I awoke at five this morning and lay awake thinking about the time University park was-filled with tattered men, all reading a curious little book labeled “Coin’s Finaneial School.” That was back . in 1895 before the park was packed with pigeons. The book, I remember, had a yellow paper cover and was designed to fit into a man’s coat pocket, provided the man was lucky enough to havd a coat. It sold for two bits and had an amazing a most men
the illustrator, a certain H, Mayer. For som I recall the crude wood cuts better than I text, lL ie rude WUOH CU% DEUCE Anan] re in particular—that of a well-fed horse standing beside an overalled workingman equipped with a pint-sized dinner pail. - Over the horse's head was the caption: $2.50 Per Day’; over the man's head, it said: "$2.00 Per Day.” The picture took up only part of a page. Mr. Harvey used the better part of 30 pages to make the same point.
Worked to His Advantage
that worked to his own advantage. In his book he represented himself as “Prof. Coin,” a teacher who ran » school for instruchion in Whe theory of money: or rather the lack of it, which was supposed to be he root of all our trouble at the time. As pictured by Mr. Mayer, Prof. Coin Jooked like a mystery man dressed in velvet knee breeches and a silk-lined swallow-tail coat. Except for his smooth-
of Hermann the Great, the world-acclaimed prestidigitator of my formative years. Indeed, the striking resemblance, in the way of dress, may have been
WASHINGTON, March 10.—The following conversation—it is scarcely necessary to point out—never took place. But I believe, if President Truman had sat' down with a member of the British cabinet after his Baylor university speech, the talk would have gone very much like this, It represents what British cabinet ministers are saying privately and off the record these days. The President: I hope you've had a chance to read the speech I made down in Texas. I think we've come to realize, as a people, that if we want to sell goods to the rest of the world, we're going to have to take more imports than we've ever taken before. British Minister: Yes, Mr. President, I read your speech and I thought it an excellent expression of an admirable ideal. But at the moment , , , (hesitating).
Position Is Difficult
THE PRESIDENT; You have some reservations? After all, it hasn't been easy to arrive at a compromise that the Republicans could aceept. British Minister: I appreciate what a great undertaking that is, sir. But I was going to say that Brit-
story. When little children go to ain’s present position is so very. difficult I am afraid . public | schools, and are allowed to mingle exports and restricting certain types-of imports.
we are shortly going to have to start directing our
The President: But that would mean a very bad feaction here. It might jeopardize the whole trade organization. British Minister: We realize that all too well, Mr. President. urgency of our position with respect to balance of payments. Thé President: Why, I saw a report the other day from our people that seemed to show you were in | fairly good shape.
MEXICO CITY, March 10—I have just been kissed by a man with a flowing mustache in the best interests of hemispheric solidarity. And it seems to me that the least the staie department can do is send me a letter of appreciation. ~Let us start at the beginning. Because of the
importuning of an old crony, a Mr. H. Dixon Donnelley, I have been out spreading goodwill among the Indians. Mr. Donnelley used to be a newspaperman himself, before he succumbed to the lure of money and went to work as press attache at the embassy here. Part of the S. D.'s greater goodwill program is a 16-millimeter film project, which is enjoying great success in the Tequila and Tortilla belt. A truck full of sound movie equipment goes roaming around the ‘sticks, just packed with fine old propaganda for the estados unidos.
Gaze at the Films - THEY SET UP shop in the village square.. The Indians come for miles around. They sit in their. serapes and ponchos, their straw sombreros pulled low over their eyes. They gaze at the films, which are, projected on the white’ adobe walls of the local courthouse, and they get educated something fierce. In most of my dealings with the state department,
the~monsy-Pasher in-2.DTa BIND to pepulasize burs. lesque: - But ‘I'am duty bound to hand-it-to the 16-millimeter boys, They are showing Yanqui. eductaional films to a million Mexicans a ‘month, and are reflecting all sorts .of credit. on the U. 8. Because of the animated cartoon known locally as Doe-Nal Duke, or Donald. Duck, Mexican Indians
WORLD AFFAIRS .
WASHINGTON, March 10.—Fourteen ruthless men with an ambition to dominate the world are blocking the road to peace with a view to making their dream come true. The 14 are Generalissimo Stalin and his 13 politbureau comrades. That is what Secretary of State George C. Marshall and the American mission will be up against from the opening of -the Moscow conference today. A. German peace settlement at this” time would. cause ‘tremendous surprise. That Russia’s delaying tactics are following a prearranged plan developed before the end of the war is difficult to- doubt. Time works for her and’ against the United States, Britain and the rest of the allies. World chaos deepens with each passing day. That aids communism. whose most fertile breeding ground is human misery.
Borne Rich Fruit : : / RUSSIAN DELAYS have already borne rich fruit for the' 14-man dictatorship in the Kremlin. The British empire is crumbling. The United States, in effect, has abandoned its ally, China, leaving it to the Chinese Reds. Britain is pulling out of India, Egypt, Palestirie and Greece. reece is ready to fall into. Russia's clutches. Poland, the Baltic republics, Rumania,
{+ Bulgaria, - ‘Yugoslavia, Albania, Outer Mongolia and the Kuriles have been organized hdet Moscow's :
‘orders. L Eastern Germany, Marichuria, Sinkiang, Korea
now pork chops will be selling around $1.28 per pound,
ON THE OTHER HAND, Mr. Harvey had gifts.
shaven face, he might have passed for a pygmy edition,
IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs. What British Say Off the Record
But the fact remains of the extreme.
I have gone away mad, feeling that we could spend :
ho ayrademer” wie eurtallea by the United Nations. :
idea of the book-sto make we believe pat ” also had the ot of taking rabbits out of hats. Anyway, to this imaginary school there came as pupils—or so Mr. Harvey led us to believe—the leading bankers, merchants and, believe it or not, even editors who wanted to learn at first hand why our country was {n such a hell of a fix—pupils ‘like Marshall Field, for instance, and Potter Palmer, Levi Leiter, Philip Armour and Lyman Gage; to say nothing of Editor Medill of the Chicago Tribune. The preposterous idea of an editor going to school voluntarily should Nave been &nough to brand the plot as a phony one, but the temper of the people was so frayed at the time that they swallowed the story hook, line and sinker, Mr. Harvey portrayed these men as humbly sitting at his feet begging, for heaven's sakes, to tell them why there wasn't enough money to go ee Occa~ sionally he had them asking ques manner, or putting forth arguments of which Mr. Harvey ey SS
Everybody Believed It
HE STAGED his school so realistically that he had everybody believing that the thing actually took place with the result that everybody sitting in University park believed that thid country was run by a pack of fools. Indeed, Mr. Harvey's book added so much more fuel to the popular discontent that the Democats proposed Willlam Jennings Bryan as a savior. Mr. Harvey's book even fooled those sitting on Mt. Olympus. A month after Mr. Bryan was nominated, for instance, the Review of as
.& magazine as we had at the time, went out of its
way to seat Mr. Harvey with the immortals. His name would beypgimembered “forever,” it said, because of his great cotrtvution to humanity. Well, today not a soul remembers Mr, Harvey, let alone his slick presentation of fantastic fallacies. Indeed, I wouldn't have brought up the painful subject except for the disconcerting discovery that University park has been turned ower to the pigeons, the corollary of which is, of course, that Indianapolis no longer has a public place for the dissemination of literature designed to’ explain why, any day now, pork chops are going to cost $1.25 per pound.
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British Minister: On the surface that seems to be true. But actually it is not true. As a realist in our treasury put it, we are at the moment borrowing our imports and sending out our exports for nothing. What he meant was that we are buying our essential Imports with money obtained on loans from the United States and Canada. The President: Well, are you suggesting, then, that Great Britain will néed another loan?
Postpone Reckoning BRITISH MINISTER: Not at all, sir. We believe that another loan, even if it were possible would merely postpone the day of reckoning. What we would hope, sir, is that your government could make
loans to our customers in Western Europe, so that -
they could buy your products and thereby rehabilitate their industry—and then in turn sell to us and ulti-
mately repay yeu. This seems to us essential, along -
with a rehabilitation of the Ruhr. The President: Let's get this straight. If you have to start directing your exports and restricting your imports, where will it hit us first? British Minister: I imagine we should have to cut down on tobacco and American filmg first of all The President: We'd hear from North Carolina fig away if that happened, and from California,
To ritiah Minister: We should deeply" regret it, sir. The Prench are constantly after us to take more champagne, but we tell them we can't possibly afford champagne. As the British visitor departs, the President looks out reflectively on the snowy White House lawn. It is not nearly as cheerful a world as it seemed half an hour before. :
REFLECTIONS ies By Robert C. Ruark Mexican Movie Project a Success
from Cuajimipa to Merida are boiling their drinking water. They are filling up stagnant water holes which breed malarial mosquitoes and alternatirg . their crops to conserve the land. Some of them, simple folk, don't know why these things are good. But it is enough that they are advocated by Senor Duke, Pluto, El Perrito and Los Siete Enanss—otherwise known as Happy, Grumpy, Doc, Sneezy, Dopey et al We showed an anti-malaria film. in the little pueblo of Cuajimalpa. It is only 25 minutes by car from Mexico City,” but still thoroughly Indian that many of the citizens do not speak Spanish. The Indians sat impassively—with the exception of the kids, who were full of the devil—but their attention never flickered from the screen. They were as much enthralled by the educational film as by the subseguest Mickey Mouse which carried no social sig= nificance. :
Top Social Event THE STATE department efforts to scatter painless knowledge among the primitives comprise the top social event of the area. The word passes for days in advance. The Indians swarm in from as ’ far as 25 miles away. There is much bowing, scraping and oratory before and after, The audience is informed that the assembled state departmenters have madé a
Special trio to edify the i At great personal -
and financial cost to Tio en, after ‘the-
film,
sip .of pulque. That is a local firewater made from cactus, and which feels not unlike cactus ‘on the way down.
. By William Philip Simms
Russ in No Hurry to Make Peace
" 80 ‘there is" no hurry. There was no hurry at Dumbarton -Oaks, at San Francisco, at London, Paris or New York. There is no hurry at Lake Success about controlling the secrets of the atom. There is every reason to believe that, plete by piece, Russia 4s already acquiring the various bits of this terrible puzzle—from Canada and this country, from German and other scientists—and before long will be able to put them together for herself. Then she would be subject to. no controls, no unwelcome inspections. She would be wholly free to do as she pleased with her bombs. She would use them to intimidate the rest of the world as today she is using her power
to intimidate her nelghbars.
Nothing to Fear IN DELAYING international settlements all along the line, the Soviet Union knows.she has nothing to fear from -abroad. From a military point of . view there is only one other first-class power on earth— the United States—and she knows aggression from that source is not even possible. ‘The United States might, with difficulty, defend itself against a new aggression. That we could moung an aggressive war—raise millions of troops, spend’ hundreds of billions reconverting peacetime industries to war, and all the rest—is out of the question. And Moscow knows it. Russia, therefore, 18 in no hurry to make peace. in perfect safety she can dilly-dally as long as she pleases. "Bhe can wait until she uires the atomic weapon without what her Andrei ny=~
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